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Prince Albert calls for more sporting organisations to commit to climate action in speech at COP26

  • Olympics

Monaco has called on more sporting organisations to commit to joining the United Nations (UN) Sports for Climate

Action Framework at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow.

the summit.Prince Albert participated during a section titled United Nations Framework Convention on Climate

Change (UNFCCC) Sports for Climate Action – On the Race To Net Zero.He outlined the IOC’s role in co-launching

action in this way.Prince Albert outlined the IOC's climate action efforts at COP26 ©Getty Images"The

With decisive climate action more urgent than ever, I call on even more sports organisations to join

Accelerating the shift from carbon-neutral to climate-positive is also the ambition that we have set


London 2012 gold medallist Stott calls on world leaders to act on climate change during COP26

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must be "about keeping fossil fuels in the ground" while the world leaders attend the United Nations Climate

accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate

President Joe Biden and United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson, are expected to outline their climate

Here's a little video to support all the climate hypocrites (a category which includes me) if you feel


Labour union files lawsuit seeking disclosure of Games Agreement for Los Angeles 2028

  • Los Angeles 2028

A labour union representing hospitality workers, Unite Here Local 11, has filed a lawsuit seeking to force the City of Los Angeles to publicly disclose the Games Agreement for the 2028 Olympics and Paralympics, but Los Angeles 2028 insists it will be released under "the standard public review process."

Olympics in recent years," with the city facing housing difficulties and experiencing the impact of climate


Paris 2024 environment head confident Games will beat IOC targets on reducing harmful emissions

  • Paris 2024

Paris 2024’s head of environmental excellence Georgina Grenon has called for "Climate Athletes" at the

We all have to become "Climate Athletes" - we have the opportunity to do things differently to be able

and Paralympic organisers claim they are already following the directives of the 2015 Paris Accord on Climate

Olympic sailing champion Hannah Mills called for more athletes to speak out to influence Governments on climate

change.Sailor Hannah Mills has called for more athletes to speak out to influence Governments on climate

Mills was a participant in an athletes video on climate change launched this week in Glasgow to coincide


World Athletics survey discovers 80 per cent of athletes worried about climate change

  • Athletics

Nearly 80 per cent of athletes are seriously concerned about climate change and more than half claim

77 per cent of the respondents admitted they are either very concerned or extremely concerned about climate

took part in the World Athletics survey which discovered that nearly 80 per cent were concerned about climate

change ©World AthleticsThe survey, published as the United Nations Climate Summit opened yesterday in

proportion of those were from developing countries in Africa, Asia and South America where impacts of climate

The science is clear - we must act decisively to combat climate change and we must act now," he said.


David Owen: How "Green" is my tally? Sustainability and the Olympic Movement

  • Inside the Blogs

"Green" issues are front and centre this week courtesy of COP26, so let’s take a look at how the Olympic Movement is doing and, in particular, how it could do better in the environmental protection/sustainability space.

times - but I think a lot more could and should be done.Agenda 2020+5 commits Olympicland to "achieve climate

Paris 2024 is said to be "already working on staging climate-positive Olympic Games in 2024".It is both



Athletes call on world leaders to deliver on climate action at COP26 summit

  • Olympics

A group of more than 50 Olympians and Paralympians have called on world leaders to deliver on climate

marathon star Eliud Kipchoge and retired Spanish basketball legend Pau Gasol, warn of the impact of climate

to coincide with the start of the summit in the Scottish city, considered one of the most important climate

change conferences ever held.They called COP26 "the Olympics of climate summits".Leaders attending the

conference are expected to outline their climate commitments at the event, due to run until November

At COP26, the Olympics of climate summits, we need you to lead us."


Future World University Games hosts present plans at FISU General Assembly

  • Universiade

Lake Placid 2023 and Yekaterinburg 2023 provided updates on their preparations to host upcoming World University Games on the final day of the International University Sports Federation (FISU) General Assembly.

place alongside the Games from January 14 to 16 in 2023.The event aims to highlight the intersection of climate

, energy, food, and forest among items expected to be discussed.Yekaterinburg 2023 also highlighted climate


Tickets go on sale for Munich 2022 European Championships

  • Munich 2022

Tickets for the Munich 2022 European Championships have been released, with prices beginning at €10 (£8.46/$11.65).

footprint and will give ticket-buyers the opportunity to offset this with a voluntary contribution to climate


ANOC backs IOC commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent

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A commitment by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to reduce its direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent by 2030 was adopted as one of the resolutions at the end of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) General Assembly here today.

The National Olympic Committees also pledged to engage with the United Nations (UN) Sports for Climate

and apply a similar reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions.The IOC announcement to help tackle climate

change was made by its President Thomas Bach during a keynote address here.It comes prior to the UN Climate

Change.IOC President Thomas Bach had warned National Olympic Committees that "the climate crisis is

strategy which had been developed in 2018 as part of the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework.The


ANOC to hold first carbon neutral General Assembly

  • ANOC News

The Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) has claimed its two-day General Assembly starting here tomorrow will be the first edition of the event to be carbon neutral.

take place before it was moved to Crete, on October 31.It has also bought carbon credits from First Climate


FASANOC pledges support to Olympism 365 strategy through ACE programme

  • ONOC

The Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) has pledged its support to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Olympism‌ ‌365‌ ‌strategy.

These range from health, wellbeing, education and equality to environmental initiatives relating to climate

programme.The programme focuses on good health and wellbeing, quality education, gender equality and climate